15 January 2019

Governance refresh

The beginning of a new year reminds us how vital strategic planning is for community organisations and how important it is to keep this planning on point and current.

Here are five ideas to help you with a governance refresh for your organisation:

1.  What is likely to change in our operating environment this year?

We have some great resources on CommunityNet Aotearoa to help you with this including a PESTLE analysis, a tool that is a situational analysis in which you consider the:

• political
• economic
• social
• technological
• legal and
• environmental factors that might affect your organisation.

2.  Your strategic plan...

• Do you need to make any changes as a result of your PESTLE analysis?

3.  Do you have new governance team members joining you? 

• Have all new Board members/Trustees been properly inducted?
• Are they ready to contribute?

4.  Trusting and validating  - what do the Board/Trustees need?

• What reports are required?
• What questions do the Board/Trustees need to ask?

5.  Are we managing our own measurement adequately?

• Do you have a plan in place for performance reviews for the CEO and senior management staff? Start planning these now.

(Based in part on Patrick Moriarty's comments on Community Directors - @NFPdirectors - https://www.ourcommunity.com.au/)

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